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Missing Red Lion HS Senior Found Dead: Authorities
A 17-year-old Red Lion student who never returned home from school on Valentine's Day has been found dead, authorities say. Red Lion Area Senior High School student, J. Carson Capik last contacted his family he contacted his parents around 2 p.m. on Feb. 14, police stated in their initial release. Shortly after that, his phone was turned off, York County Regional police say. He was last seen leaving the school in his father's 2011 black Honda Fit with, according to the release. The YCRPD was called to his Windsor Township home by his parents who officially reported him as missing at 8…
Police & Fire
Family Dies In Murder-Suicide Pact In West Manchester Twp. Backyard: Coroner
A family of three was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide in their backyard in York County on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, authorities say. James A. Daub, 62, Deborah A. Daub, 59, and Morgan E. Daub, 26 of 2098 Loman Avenue, were identified as the people found dead, according to an updated release by the West Manchester Township police the following day at 11 a.m. Two coroners were requested to the Loman Avenue near the intersection of Derry Road and Thelon Drive in West Manchester Township at 11:17 a.m., according to York County Emergency Management. When…
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Child Porn Investigation Turned Suicide Caused Shelter In Place Order Off Linglestown Road: DA
A child porn investigation turned suicide led to school lockdowns and a shelter-in-place order in a neighborhood off Linglestown Road in Susquehanna Township, authorities say. Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Division of the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office came to interview a man about child pornography on a cellphone at his home in the 4200 block Beaufort Hunt Drive on Thursday, Jan. 5 around 11 a.m., according to a release by the DA around 3 p.m. "He confirmed that the telephone at issue was his. After detectives retained his mobile telephone as evidence, pending a …
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Why This One Particular Stab Wound Is Crucial In Ellen Greenberg Family's Arguments
On Jan. 26, 2011, Ellen Rae Greenberg was found on the kitchen floor of her Philadelphia apartment with 20 stab wounds — 10 to the back of her neck alone. In a hearing last week, Greenberg's attorneys made arguments to have the ruling on Ellen's death changed from suicide to something else. Among the points made was the fact that at least one of the wounds could not have been self-inflicted as it lacked blood, and was administered after Ellen had already died, the family's attorney Joe Podraza citing the findings of a city pathologist. That wound is in the neck region between C2 and C3 of…
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Police Release Details Following 'Active Incident' In Chambersburg
The Chambersburg police released details shortly after urging the public to avoid the 500 block of Nelson Street in Chambersburg due "active incident" on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Officers were called to the area for a "suicidal subject within the residence" at approximately 10:46 a.m., the department stated in an updated release that afternoon. Upon arrival, responding officers learned that a 26-year-old male within the residence was in "possession of a pistol and he had been threatening to commit suicide," as stated in the release. The man then emerged from the residence and shot himself wi…
Obituaries
I-83 Driver Involved In Crash In Harrisburg Found Dead On Island In Lancaster Near 1 Year Later
A crash on Interstate 83, a missing Harrisburg man, and a skeleton found on an island in Lancaster nearly a year later, are all linked together authorities announced on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Stephen Salazar had been involved in a crash in the northbound lanes of I-83 near the 2nd Street Exit on Dec. 23, 2021, at approximately 5:30 p.m., according to Lower Paxton Township police. The Township police issued a missing person alert on Dec. 29 at 6:45 p.m., but the 61-year-old was never heard from again. Salazar was described as a White man who was approximately 5'8" tall, heavy …
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Remains Matching Missing PA Woman Found After Brother's Suicide During Welfare Check: Reports
A woman who had been missing since August 3 has been found dead, multiple media outlets report citing authorities. Tammy Berkey, of Berlin, had left her home in a red transam that Wednesday and had not been heard from since, according to her family. She was first reported missing on August 7, according to social media posts by her family. When state police went to her home along Mason Dixon Highway in Brothersvalley Township for a welfare check on Aug. 11, her brother, James Foy Jr., went into another room and shot himself, WJAC reports citing the acting District Attorney Molly M…
Police & Fire
Missing PA Man Who 'Planned To Kill Himself' Found Dead, Police Say
A missing Pennsylvania man who police say had suicidal ideations has been found dead. The body of Stephen Zborowsky, 53, was found on Thursday, Aug. 18, just four days after he was last seen by family members, Lower Moreland police said. Authorities did not say where his body was discovered or what caused his death. Zborowsky had told his brother that he was going to kill himself by jumping off a boulder at Lorimer Park in Huntingdon Valley, police said. He also apparently told his mother he would buy a rifle and shoot himself in his vehicle. The man had been staying with…
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Former Drexel Neurology Chair Who Sexually Abused Patients Dies By Suicide In Jail: AP
Drexel University's former chairman of the neurology department convicted of sexually assaulting patients died by suicide in a New York City jail, sources tell the Associated Press. Dr. Ricardo Cruciani was found unresponsive in a shower area of the Eric M. Taylor Center on Rikers Island Monday, Aug. 18, the AP reports. The 68-year-old doctor's attorney confirmed that he died but not the manner of death. Cruciani, who was facing life in prison, allegedly got dozens of female patients hooked on painkillers he prescribed before sexually abusing them over the course of 15 years at area h…
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Search For Missing PA Woman Announced After Relative Dies From 'Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound'
A relative of a woman who had been missing since August 3 "died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound" on Sunday, August 14, Pennsylvania state police say. Tammy Berkey, of Berlin, had left her home in a red transam that Wednesday and had not been heard from since, according to her family. She was first reported missing on August 7, according to social media posts by her family. PSP in Somerset County and the county's district attorney's office announced it's involvement in the search a week later, only after the relative died. The reason for this delay is unclear. Berkey remains missing an…
Police & Fire
Pregnant Virginia Woman Had Pleaded On YouTube To Be Saved From Husband — Now She's Dead
"Even when I reached out for help, nothing was done at all." These are the words 27-year-old Dana Alotaibi, of Virginia, said through tears in a recorded call with the National Suicide Awareness Hotline posted to YouTube last January. Seven months later, Falls Church's Alotaibi was stabbed dead by the very man she had been fearful of, Bryant Tejeda-Castillo, on the H-3 freeway in Hawaii, according to those who knew her and police. Tejeda-Castillo was charged with second-degree murder and being held on $1 million bond. Alotaibi's mom, Natalia Cespedes, believes that her daughter w…
Obituaries
6 Years After Retirement Beloved Central PA Police Sgt., Ast. Fire Chief Dies By Suicide
A beloved central Pennsylvania policeman has died by suicide six years after retirement. Sgt. J. Donald “J.D.” Shaeffer served with the Lancaster Bureau of Police for 25 years before retiring in August 2016, according to police officials. He began his career with the Bureau in 1991 as a patrolman and worked his way up to sergeant by 2007, officials with the Bureau said in a statement. He also served "as a Field Training Officer, VASCAR Technician, Bicycle Officer, and with the Mounted Unit. He received numerous commendations and letters of praise throughout his career, and in 2006 rece…
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